Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 24, 1994 TAG: 9404240258
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-10 EDITION: METRO
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Richmond Metro Gold, a 96-76 winner over Boo Williams-Peninsula in a semifinal Saturday morning, advanced to the national tournament in Oklahoma City.
Mudu Lee, a 6-foot-3 junior from Douglas Freeman High School in Richmond, had 22 points for Richmond Metro Gold in the first game Saturday and added 20 in the final. Richmond Metro Gold is coached by former Virginia Commonwealth star Edmund Sherod.
Marseilles Brown had seven 3-pointers and 29 points in leading Boo Williams-Peninsula to a 73-66 triumph over Boo Williams-Hampton in the third-place game Saturday afternoon.
Two teams from Roanoke won championships at the USTA Mid-Atlantic Sectional mixed doubles championships in Silver Springs, Md.
The 4.0 team swept through the field undefeated, beating a pair of teams from Northern Virginia and a team from Richmond.
Playing on the 4.0 team were Libba Lemon, Dale Fitzgerald, Lynelle Hanley, Marsha Grey, Carol Fitch, Karl Stewart, Wallace Allen, Mike Traylor, Butch Traylor and Butch Church.
The 3.5 team was not undefeated, but won enough matches to earn the team title. Among its victims were a pair of teams from Northern Virginia and a team from Richmond.
Playing on the 3.5 team were Ray Lingle, Joe Wheby, Clay Agee, Larry McMahon, Peggy Obenchain, Wilma Guilliams, Tracy Agee, Lisa Parker and Brenda Ayers.
Both Roanoke teams advance to the Eastern Regional mixed doubles championships at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., in late June.
In Lynchburg, Jamie Bell's first-half goal helped North Cross (7-1-3) forge a 1-1 tie with E.C. Glass (2-2-1) at the Southwest Virginia Soccer Classic.
In Lynchburg, Kevin Austin won the 100 meters (10.8 seconds) and the 200 meters (22.4) as William Fleming finished third behind Charlottesville and GW-Danville at the Jefferson Invitational high school track and field meet.
Dominick Millner won the long jump for Fleming with a leap of 22 feet, 2 inches. Millner finished second in the 800 meters.
by CNB